Chapter 67 – Mother and Mother

The moment I saw the woman who appeared, I was slightly shocked.

The last time I saw her was two or three days ago at most.
In that short span of time, she was incredibly exhausted.

His eyes were sunken and his cheeks sunken.
Her hair was frizzy, and perhaps because of her mood, her back seemed to be bent.

Does the fact that her face is covered with an image of death mean something like this?
She literally had a face that looked like she was about to die.

Me and her faced each other at a certain distance.

Is this the first time we’ve seen each other properly?
Are the eyes visible in the first place? There are no highlights in the eyes.

“… Sorry. This… I want to give it back.”

She took out her belongings from her arms.
Anything wrapped in a dirty cloth.
When he unwrapped the cloth that was wrapped around him, a familiar medicine came out.

Perhaps that was the potion he took from me.
He must have brought what remained after his son died before he could use it.

“… Son?”

I know, but she doesn’t know that I know.
So, at least formally, I had to ask.

She pursed her parted lips and barely spoke her words.

“… Dead… It is.”

His voice was as crumbly as a grain of sand in the desert. I was tired and dry.

“I’m sorry.”

I had nothing to say.
What can I say to a mother who lost her son?

“Nice…”

The woman holds back the tears that are about to burst out and swallows them.
She sniffed her nose once, then set her potion down on the floor.

“Leave this here… I will go.”

It’s the same way I gave it before.

Now, what should I do?
Anyway, the expiration date of the potion is 7 days. There was a high probability that there would be no use for it even if it was received.
So wouldn’t it be better to just give it away?

“No. You may not return it. Because I already gave it to you.”

More than anything, it was embarrassing.
A mother who lost her son is buried with sorrow.
If I left it in the hideout, I would think of it every time I saw it.

“Eat yourself. You don’t look well.”
“No, but…”

A woman who wants to give back.
I want to make a reservation.
While interacting with each other.

『Teeling♪』

I heard that ominous alarm.

“Under.”

What else?

『Sudden Mission Occurred!』

Okay. It’s a sudden mission.
What are you going to do again this time? What kind of crazy mission are you trying to give me?

But the message didn’t ring on my cell phone.
It was the sound coming from the pocket of the woman facing me.

『A great opportunity to revive your dead partner!』

A cheerful voice message that seems to make a caricature of a person’s death.
The system confirmed it. If this is the case, it is certain that the woman’s partner is dead. I don’t even know if it’s my son.

But what is a great opportunity?
You need coins to save your partner, so is this an opportunity to earn coins?

My doubts were quickly dispelled.

『Kill the survivor Kang Chang-jae and his partners!』
『Reward: 1,000 Coins for each opposing player and his/her partner, plus all coins held by the opponent.』
『Time limit: 10 minutes.』

The system correctly pointed me and my partner.
To kill

“Under. Haha.”

Only dry laughter came out.

Okay. That’s how it came out.
I had a good meal.
This was definitely unexpected.

“Flaw. A thousand coins per person? It’s an honor. You paid too much for it.”

I was already pointing the tip of my bamboo spear at the woman.

The opponent you once thought you might be on the same side as.
But things can’t possibly work out that well.
I had forgotten for a moment the malice of this island.

“What are you doing? Is that window standing beside Pom?”

The woman was looking at me with her blank eyes.
Eyes that seem to have lost their soul.
It was similar to Seunghee’s eyes when she completely lost her taste after eating her fill.

However, the woman in front of him does not have the same sexiness as Seunghee.
I felt the horror of seeing a dead body.

“…”

A woman mumbles something.
What? Are you crazy? Or a distraction homing operation?

Stumble.
The woman’s body swayed slightly, and she sat down on the spot.

“… What? What do you mean?”

My expression was naturally frowned at the incomprehensible action.
Still, the tension did not ease. Because you don’t know what to do when
I was prepared to take out the pistol in my chest at any time.

But the woman behaved completely unexpectedly.

“Now, no… Ah… Ahhh…”

He sat down on his stomach, and suddenly started to howl.

“Ahhh…”

Okay. Cried out
The sound was never loud, but there was no other way to describe it.

An unpleasant sound, like scratching iron.
The woman lost her mind, threw everything away, and cried out.

“Ah—”

The hoarse voice soon became inaudible.
It is a silent wail.
I couldn’t hear it, but it felt like scratching my eardrum.

I stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to do with my bamboo spear pointed at me.
At that time, I felt a presence from behind.

“Don’t come out.”

I heard the sound of the door opening.
When she quickly turned her head, her mother was coming out.

“Mother.”
“Are you okay.”
“No.”

Again and again, her mother walked slowly this way.
And she gently placed her hand on my arm holding a bamboo spear.
It was a warm hand.

“Are you okay.”

Then, the strength in my arm, which had been tense, drained away.
Only then did I realize that I was holding the bamboo spear so hard that my hands hurt.

“Mom.”
“Are you okay. Leave it to Mom.”

Mom just passed me and approached the woman.
Casually.
Even I couldn’t stop such a mother.
Now, Mom was wearing something unapproachable.

… For a moment. What are you looking at?
The opponent is a 190cm tall guy?
Besides, the mission to kill us is still going on?

Even if a woman’s strength is weaker than a man’s, if she’s the opponent, she might be able to kill her with her bare hands.
No matter how much mom says it’s okay, I have to stop it.

“Are you okay.”

My mother approached the woman easily, so simply that my worries were in vain.
My stomach burned as if I saw a child putting his hand in a lion’s cage.

“Noah… Send it to Noah. Me too to Noah… Please kill me.”

I couldn’t understand what the woman was saying.
Sobs are half, wails are the other half, words are just a little bit in between. It seemed to be mixed with English in the middle.

“I can save you.”

The mother squatted in front of the prostrate woman, and she put her hand on her shoulder.
I stood right behind her mother fidgeting.
So that a woman who has lost her reason can deal with it at any time.

“Noah, Noah… !”

A woman grabbed both of her mother’s arms.
As if clinging to God.
I was startled, but my mother remained completely calm.

“Let’s try together so that Noah can be saved.”

Mother’s tone was extremely cordial, a cruelly sharp contrast to her screaming woman.

A mother who has a son and a mother who has lost her son.
What is this difference?

“Ah… Ahhh…”

Tears fell from the woman’s eyes.
It’s like finding a ray of hope in the abyss of despair.
That hope was my mother.

“We will help. So that Noah can be saved.”

Those words were the decisive blow.

“Aang! Ahh… !”

The large woman burst into tears like a child.
Cuddled like clinging to her mother. So sad
Mom just silently comforted such a woman.

… It was an ending I couldn’t quite comprehend.

*

“Let’s wash up first. The smell is no joke.”

After a while, when the woman calmed down somewhat, her mother said.
… To be honest, even I, who was a little distant, felt it.
But you say it out loud like that.

“Cool… Sorry.”

The woman bowed her head in embarrassment.

“Are you okay. You know, I didn’t even have the mind to wash.”

Although her mother was 30 cm shorter, she felt much more grown-up.
For some reason, I felt more like a mother today. I think I would be intimidated if I stood in front of that person.

“There is a bathroom in the hideout, so I wash there. It’s creative.”
“Yes?”
“Prepare new clothes, underwear, and toiletries. I should throw away everything I was wearing.”
“Uh… Yes.”

Mom says she will throw away other people’s clothes as if she took it for granted.

It’s the first time we met today, so is it okay to decide like that?
The woman who was the real party to her said nothing.

“No. Give me your cell phone Mom will live.”

They even took my cell phone away.

While looking at her cell phone, her mother led her to the hideout, and the woman followed her mother as if it were natural.
While staring at the back of it dumbfounded, I grabbed her trident, which the woman had left behind.

“It is heavy.”

It was pretty heavy. It seemed that even a tolerable man would not be able to wield it easily.
Did you fight like that with something like this? I’m not an ordinary woman either.

After taking the bamboo spear and trident, I went back to the hideout.
Mom treats her as if she’s already on our side, but honestly I couldn’t follow the flow of the story at all.

My mother is too kind and lax. So, I also had to wake up.

… Or is this just me being weird?
Both of them acted like it was natural, so I felt like I was weird.

As soon as they entered the hideout following the two, Seung-hee, who was in a state of confusion, came running.
It would be surprising if a stranger suddenly entered the hideout.

“Brother, brother, what happened?”
“I don’t know either.”
“Eh?”

You don’t know what you don’t know by looking at it with those eyes.
What to do if you really don’t know

“First of all, this is the bathroom. Toilet next to it. Do you want to go to the bathroom?”
“Oh, no… No, yes.”

It was the same that this woman was swayed by her mother.
It was embarrassing to enter someone else’s house without saying hello.

“The bathroom is the same, so it’s okay if I don’t tell you how to use it?”
“Ah, yes…”

The mother first pushes the woman into the bathroom.
When the woman went to the bathroom, Seunghee and I approached her mother.

“Mom?”

We ask what we are doing.
Mom just smiled vaguely.